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Salam and hi friends, sorry for not updating for so long here, I am really running out of time to update my blogs, currently I just active on Flickr..Just drop by to share what I've just found, which what the media doesnt really want you to see:
http://www.islamway.com/gaza/gallery/
Umar's eczema has becoming a lot better, after seeing another skin specialist, she also gave the steroid creams. We had no choice, except to hear the doctor's advice, because his condition was really bad at that time.
And my dear Falah has turned 1 on 10th May, how fast time flies!
There are already a few cases of swine flu reported here in Japan..I hope non of us get infected. Lets take care of ourselves.
See you again.
So these are among 100 macro shots we have taken. We bought that yellow flower just to be our model. This hobby is really wasting our money..huh. The weather this week and last week was not very nice, very cloudy so I didnt really had chance to play with the lens outside.
Get inspired again
Recently I have been digging a Flickr friend's artwork. I really love her work, especially her doodles, very original and simple but unique. If I had much money I'd buy her artwork. She really makes me want to doodle too..See..I told you I can easily be inspired by other people success/ talents..hehe
New water dispenser
This week we started to drink healthy mineral water at home. before this we just drink the water from the pipe. Of course we had a filter attached to that pipe, but it gets dirty so fast so we have to change the filter always to get clean water. Sometimes we buy a box of mineral water with about 10 big bottles inside. Recently there was a company doing a promotion, the lend us their water dispenser for free but we have to buy the mineral water from them, at least 24 litre per month. Free 24 litre for the first month. There are 3 types of water but we choose the healthiest one, so the most expensive. 1 litre costs 150 yen (maybe about usd 1.7/ RM 5) for the water, delivery cost and also the rental of the water dispenser, we think that's not too expensive so we gave it a try. But guess what, we finished 12 litre within 3 days, besides than it;s great taste, Umar pours the water from the dispenser just for fun. So that's why the water finished so fast. We have to change the dispenser location so that Umar cannot pour the water easily. But we have no idea where to, our house is so small and already jam packed with everything.
Received 3 kilos mayonaisse
Recently we received 3 kilos mayonaisse from a friend. His family brought it when they came here but now they have gone back so they gave the mayonaisse to us. Since we love to eat mayonaisse we are so happy to receive it, but we are not sure whether we can finish it before the expire date or not. Now we are eating everything with the mayonaisse..hehehe
My kids
My baby already can stand on himself for about 1 minute. He is going to walk soon!
And my dear Umar is with his mischief as usual, always gets punished from us..haha..pity him!
Vox
Recently I am concentrating on something else so I dont really have time for Vox, and even Flickr and other blogs.
So I might be posting something here once in a blue moon. Sorry vox!
Recently I am not in good mood to blog, I just have no interesting things to jot down here. My life went on as usual, took care and entertained the kids, did the house chores, surfed the internet about anything that came across my mind, and of course had fun with my camera. Oh, my husband has just ordered the macro lens. At last after discussing with some friends on Flickr we decided to get the Nikkor 105mm VR. It is very expensive, I just cant believe we have spent so much for this hobby. I really hope I will enjoy it as much as I can. I dont really hope to get money from this hobby because the competition is too tight, but maybe I will just submit some of my photos to the istock companies, who knows my luck ;).
This is the pic of my friend's son on his birthday party last week. Her mom ordered that cake from me, since I am not good at decorating, I just put kiwi, orange and sprinkle the colorful beads on it. After this another friend is ordering that cake again;) Oh, the cake is called "Death by chocolate cake", I got the recipe from myresipi.com. Besides the cheese brownies, this is also the best moist chocolate cake I have ever made.
Received lots of wishes from friends, thanks to the social sites such as facebook and friendster for the birthday reminder feature if not my birthday would be very boring! Hehe
Hubby said he will get a macro lens by next month for my birthday gift..wow wee I cant wait to play with it! ;))
I received a bday party invitation from Kak Rini, his son's birthday is 4th Feb, 1 day earlier than mine and she ordered choc cake for the 2nd time from me..so I'm going to bake it tonight.
Actually I am so busy with "something" recently..it's a secret ;) so I hardly find time to post something here..I will try my best not to neglect my vox blog:)
Two things happened today:
1- My husband left the car key and house key in the car after coming back home from lunch and grocery shopping. The house key has always been attached to the car key and our spare keys were inside our house. We were panicked for a while but luckily we live in family dormitary facilitated by the university so the office has the master key with them. I wonder what would happen if they dont have the master keys.
2- Umar pushed our little Falah and Falah's head knocked at a chair for ??? time, I'm not sure. Falah cried loudly, not long though, and Umar got punishment from me, of course. My husband was praying while I was in the toilet and could hear the knock sound. Falah's head got bruised/swollen, quite big but it gone after I put our favorite cream. A few days ago I read a story about a 7 month old baby died because the baby's head knocked to something hard. Since then I became so worried everytime Falah fell down and his head knocked to something. I feel like going to the hospital and get his head scanned but Falah's seems ok, still playing and laughing as usual after the incident. I hope nothing bad happen to my kids, amin. From now onward I have to keep eyes on my kids more constantly...
After I finished my degree back in 2005, I got married and followed my husband again to Japan because my husband was still studying at that time. A year after that my husband's scholarship was stopped, so while he waited for another scholarship he had to do part time and I decided to go back to Malaysia to get a job. I didnt have any problem when searching for job, I was hired by a Japanese company after 2 months I went back to Malaysia.
My salary was not bad at all, normal salary for fresh graduates. But I wanted to try to get more side income, but didnt know how. A few months after working at the same place, a friend of mine entered to the same department as mine and she had been my desk mate. Coincidentally, she was doing a business, but she didnt tell me anything about it. Everyday she seemed to be so busy, after working hour she always wanted to go back early. So I got so curious and really wanted to know what business she was doing. She reluctantly wanted to tell me, until I insisted her many times to tell and share with me the business, then one day she said " Ok, if you really want to know you have to follow me to the office. You have to see by yourself because you wont understand if I explain it to you".
So, we went to the office and I was so overwhelmed with the elegant look of the office, products, smell and also the people inside the office. Did I tell you before that I am a kind of person that easily get affected or inspired by other people?
I dont want to write very long about this, so straight to the point..the silliest thing I have ever done is joining that biz and invested RM33K... YES.. your eyes are right, RM33,000, or USD 8500.00 (Ouch! I could have bought my dream lenses with that amount!!) for that biz. I invested using cash, I didnt make loan and I am so grateful I didnt. By invested that money I received a lot of the products and I had to stock out that products by finding other people to join that biz.
I think you already can guess what type of business is that and maybe some of you(Malaysian) might know which company I am writing about. About 6 months I did that biz, I went to the seminars, tried to "do" the biz until I felt something was wrong. I contacted my friends just to introduce them to the biz, hoping they would join that biz too and not because of friendship. I didnt get any income from that biz. What I got was only tiredness and waste of money.
After 6 months I decided to quit and refund my money but I only got back 50% of the amount I invested. I was told at the beginning that I would lost 10% only if I quit, but nope, I lost 50%. And I also lost friendship with that friend. She said before that the biz wont break any bond of friendship, but it did. I tried to contact her and ask how she's doing but I did not get any reply or news from her since then. I have another friend who joined that biz too and she also quit but she is even unluckier than me. She invested by using loaned money and now she has to pay the loan (about RM800/month) until she is 45, but now she's only 28! That's why I said I am so grateful that I have used cash.
Why I said its silly? Because I joined that biz without thinking carefully whether I really could do that biz or not, I joined just because I got inspired by the successful people in that biz. But they kept telling me "Just think positive". So I thought positive until I felt sick of it..haha
Its my most bitter experience because I lost great amount of money and also friendship . But I shouldnt be too regretful about it. That experience taught me something about life. And I know many people have lost more than that when getting started to do a business. Its normal. For some other people, their most bitter experience might be losing someone they love in accident/war/fire or etc, and Im glad mine is not as bad as that. I always pray and really hope God will protect our family from any bad circumstances, amin.
I hope my story can be a lesson to all of you :)
I recently dont have many new photos to upload other than pics of my kids. Its too cold to go out for outing. My eyes and nose just cant bear the coldness. Actually I went outing this morning but my nose and eyes got watery too fast and I came back home faster than usual and brought back some boring naturey crap photos. I just cant wait for spring!
I was thinking to write about the most bad and bitter experience I have gone through in my life as until now, but I have some work to do so I will write later. I dont have enough time to sit in front of pc longer these days, I'm sure you all understand why :) I wish I had more time to post something to my blog and visit your blogs everyday *sigh*.
I received an award from a friend, Nor. Huhu thanks Nor :P
The rules of this award are:-
1. Copy and paste Badge " 2008 Cute's Blogger Award" to your blog..
(But its 2009 already lah Nor..:D)
2. Link or tell about the person who gave the award to you.
- Nor was my friend back in AAJ (Japanese Intensive Course 1999-2001).
- She is a mommy of 2 sons like me. She is like me, a Malaysian mommy staying in Japan but I heard that she's going to go back for good this year (so sad!!) Her 1st son was born on 11 Dec 2005 and my son Umar born a day after that. His 2nd son was born 2 days after my little Falah born..I guess we should plan for the 3rd one together. hehe
- Nor is a great Mom. She enjoys homeschooling his son so much. She does everything by herself because his husband is very busy, unlike me, always depend on my husband, because my husband is so very free and has very flexible time;)
- Nor married at a very early age, if I'm not mistaken when she was in her 1st year at the university in Japan. But she graduated successfully on time.
- Nor is a cute and high motivated mommy! hehe
3. Every chosen blogger must tell 10 facts about herself..
Owh this is the hardest part..but I'll try my best :)
2-I am not good at drawing at all and I am not creative. If I try to be creative on something usually that thing will turn very ugly. haha!
3-I am easily affected or inspired by other people. When I see someone very good at drawing I feel like drawing, when I see someone good at baking I feel like baking, and when I see someone has very good pics I will survey about the lens he is using and feel like buying that lens too..But I have not enough budget to buy expensive lens..haha!
4-I easily get stressed when I have lots of things to think of or when I feel too tired, that's one of the reason why I am not furthering my study or working now because I afraid my kids will be the victim of my 'stressness'.
5-I LOVE to eat eggs, especially half-cooked egg. Japanese rice with half-cooked egg + soy soyce+natto is one of my favorite meal. I used to eat egg quite every morning since I was in primary school. I love to eat any food which has egg as the filling such as egg tart, egg purin, egg sandwich and one for sure is ' roti canai telur' , especially at the mamak stall..Oh pls dont scare me about the mamak's hair falling on the roti canai I dont care I love it..hehehe. When I was working in Malaysia 2 years ago I ate roti canai telur quite every morning until my senior realized that. One day he asked me "Are you eating roti canai telur everyday???' Hehehe..I just grinned at him.
6-Recently I started to love the Flickr community. Most of them are very helpful. Oh of course I love Vox community too! You guys are rock!! :D
7-I enjoy taking and editing photos so much.
8-I want to have at least 4 kids.
9-I love coffee, chocolate and ice cream. But actually I just love to eat :D I love to eat cookies soaked into my coffee after I had my heavy meal. I wish I could stop this habit!
10- I still dont know what to do when I go back to Malaysia. I hope I just can stay at home with my kids!
Tomorrow my husband is going to Tokyo for 2 days to meet his friends, I am not sure I will follow him or not..will decide tomorrow.
Have a great weekend friends! :))
This video ruined my mood today. I just couldnt stop my tears.............:(((
Pls watch this until the end...
Today I woke up in the morning and surprised to receive an email from Fotolia.com:
Hello Haslia Hassan ,
We are pleased to announce that one of your files has just been sold on Fotolia. Below is more information about the file sold:
File Reference : 8498782
File Name : Chocolate Cake
Purchase Date : 2009-01-20 14:19:55
Purchase License : X
Purchase Price : 20
This is the link of the photo if you want to see it.
Oh wow..what a great feeling! hehe..The pic was sold to a cook book company from Germany. I uploaded that pic to Fotolia.com quite some time ago. Took that pic when I was having fun with my new D60. After that it was really hard to get my pics approved so I stopped uploading my photos there and thought that I have to learn and practise more. The price sold was $20 but I only get $6.6.
But I know it's just my luck. It's not easy to get photos sold at the istock company. So I think I shouldn't be too excited ;) Just to jot down the history of my 1st photo sold.
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